Milan Profile
City Profiles Milan, Italy Climate Resilient Cities 47802 A Primer on Reducing Vulnerabilities to Disasters Public Disclosure Authorized I/ CITY DESCRIPTION The municipality of Milan has about 1,305,000 inhabitants, of which less than 8 percent live downtown. It is the second largest city in Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. The Milan metropolitan area, depending on the specific definition, has a population ranging from 3.9 to 7.4 million.1 The metropolitan district of Milan is located in the Lowland Padana in the west- central area, inclusive of the rivers Ticino and Adda, among the river Po and the first reliefs prealpini. With a surface of around 181 square kilometers, it is positioned 122 meters above sea level. The Olona River, the Lambro River, and the Seveso Creek run Public Disclosure Authorized through Milan: Olona and Seveso run mostly underground. An industrial, financial, and cultural center, Milan is an important city in the Region and Province. The city hosted the World Exposition in 1906 and will host the Univer- sal Exposition in 2015. II/ PRIORITY HAZARDS/VULNERABILITIES In past decades, Milan has had mainly atmospheric emissions problems, such as non- compliance with limits and traffic pollutants that are too high. For this reason, the city Public Disclosure Authorized has focused mainly on mitigation policies rather than on adaptation. The city started working on monitoring, accounting, and reporting pollutants during Milan plans to cut the past decades. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the Municipality of Milan in 2005 amounted to 5,803.47 kilotons of carbon dioxide (CO2).
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